High School Quotes

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

I was a geek in high school.

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood.

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

High school popularity is so fickle.

I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.